Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cloud Computing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 67 59
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +33
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 4 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.47% 0.13% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 0.49% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £438 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £356 £400
Median % change year-on-year +32.37% -11.00% +185.71%
75th Percentile £492 - £500
90th Percentile - - £502
England median daily rate £500 £556 £575
% change year-on-year -10.11% -3.26% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 256 203 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.30% 26.85% 35.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 113 232
10th Percentile £331 £205 £213
25th Percentile £373 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -0.66% -4.63%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £534
90th Percentile £625 £619 £611
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 22
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.91 £12.08
25th Percentile £19.38 £17.00 £13.04
Median hourly rate £21.39 £29.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +87.10% -16.22%
75th Percentile - £43.51 £59.69
90th Percentile - £50.40 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Computing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -5 4 £471 +32.37% 2
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Biometrics
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Identity
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) KYC
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) NIST